#29 Music’s Dirty Secret: Censorship Is Good Business

 Sisario, Ben "Music’s Dirty Secret: Censorship Is Good Business" The New York Times 27 October 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/arts/music/clean-versions-explicit-songs.html

I prefer the unedited version of a song, mainly because the edited version sounds weird and I'm fine with songs having bad words and other stuff because it's just a song. Even the article states that "A golden age of self-censorship followed, with profanities and violent lyrics often simply deleted — leaving hit songs dotted with brief silences, like holes. 'We used to call it Swiss cheese'"(Sisario). My parents don't really have any rules to what I listen to, mostly because I usually don't listen to songs with bad words and I listen to chill songs. I think that the parents should make decisions to what their kids listen to, but also give them a little freedom.